Area Sports: Golf ace, soccer, volleyball, tennis, middle schools

By Sports staff reports

Published: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 01:30 PM.

Middle School Football

Shelby 35, East Rutherford 0 — The Blue Devils pushed their record to 3-0 with Wednesday’s road win.

Xavier Brooks ran for 220 yards and three touchdowns on the day, with scoring runs of 59, 30 and 58 yards. Tavoris Scott also ran for a 17-yard touchdown. Will Stites, Joc Washington and Scott also provided two point-conversions while Bryant Spencer kicked a point after.

Brooks also had an interception for Shelby with Dax Hollifield, Jaylon Scott, Rajah Kirkland, Tre Jolley and Stites contributing to the defensive shutout.

The Blue Devils will host Chase next Wednesday.

East Lincoln 20, Kings Mountain 14 — East built a 14-0 lead in the first half and held off the Patriots.

Kings Mountain (1-1 division) got a 55-yard scoring pass from Hunter Blanton to Landry Crawford. Landon Zanders had a 35-yard touchdown run for the Patriots and Sabiem Beam contributed a two-point conversion.

Donald Hollifield scored his third career hole-in-one playing this week at the River Bend YMCA Golf Course.

Hollifield used an 8-iron to notch his gem from 146 yards out at the par-3, No. 5 hole. Witnessing his ace were Ernie Cole and Kevin Rome.

Varsity soccer

Shelby 3, Kings Mountain 1 — The Golden Lions pushed their South Mountain Athletic Conference record to 8-1 (9-2 overall) with a win in the rain versus their county rivals at Blanton Memorial Stadium.

Richard Wright, Chance Ramsey and Tyler Cowan produced goals for Shelby. Aaron Assad and David Ray Allen provided assists for the victors.

Will Bryant and K.C. Rucker split time in goal for the Lions, who play at East Burke on Monday.

Kings Mountain, now 2-6 in league play, got a penalty-kick goal from Bryan Lysek. According to Mountaineer coaches, it was their first goal they had scored against rival Shelby in eight years.

Kings Mountain plays host to Draughn on Monday.

JV soccer

Shelby 0, Kings Mountain 0

Varsity tennis

Match postponed— The Shelby-Kings Mountain SMAC match set for Wednesday at the David Schweppe Memorial Courts was postponed to Thursday due to the wet weather.

JV volleyball

R-S Central 2, Crest 0 (25-23, 25-21) — Crest got five kills and three digs by Jennifer Allen with Logan Howell adding three kills and one ace, while Mahogany Foster supplied three digs, an ace and one kill in the SMAC loss.

Middle School Football

Shelby 35, East Rutherford 0 — The Blue Devils pushed their record to 3-0 with Wednesday’s road win.

Xavier Brooks ran for 220 yards and three touchdowns on the day, with scoring runs of 59, 30 and 58 yards. Tavoris Scott also ran for a 17-yard touchdown. Will Stites, Joc Washington and Scott also provided two point-conversions while Bryant Spencer kicked a point after.

Brooks also had an interception for Shelby with Dax Hollifield, Jaylon Scott, Rajah Kirkland, Tre Jolley and Stites contributing to the defensive shutout.

The Blue Devils will host Chase next Wednesday.

East Lincoln 20, Kings Mountain 14 — East built a 14-0 lead in the first half and held off the Patriots.

Kings Mountain (1-1 division) got a 55-yard scoring pass from Hunter Blanton to Landry Crawford. Landon Zanders had a 35-yard touchdown run for the Patriots and Sabiem Beam contributed a two-point conversion.

Kings Mountain will play host to West Lincoln next Wednesday.

Game rescheduled — The Crest Dragons' scheduled contest on the road against Chase was a victim of the weather.

The contest has been re-set for Monday at Chase High's Allen Stadium at 5 p.m.

Middle school softball

North Lincoln 20, Kings Mountain 0 — Catie Payne and Josie Lowery had hits for the Lady Patriots, who were scheduled to play county rival Burns on Wednesday.